Good morning! REI gets a new CEO, Apple faces a gender discrimination lawsuit, and Trump's anti-DEI spree extends far beyond modern-era hiring rules. Have a terrific Thursday!
- Blast from the past. President Donald Trump's plan to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion work in the federal government at first may sound like he's targeting teams that have been built over the past decade or two, as DEI became more common among employers.
Instead, Trump's anti-DEI spree has stretched back much further—all the way to former President Lyndon Baines Johnson and the civil rights era. Among Trump's flurry of executive orders this week, he overrode Johnson's Executive Order 11246, which, per HuffPost, "forbade federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity." The Labor Department's (surely soon-to-be-nuked) website describes Johnson's order as a "major safeguard" for workers employed by federal contractors, which gave the secretary of labor the authority to enforce these standards for the first time.
